This is just a vent. Disregard if not interested. Since I started my DeGoogle journey, I

• switched to a more trustworthy VPN that I use more stringently than before;
• deconvoluted personal and work accounts;
• deleted third-party Google logins and set up email / PW logins instead for corporate sites that I do use; I also started using
• NextTube;
• Lemmy;
• Matrix;
• DuckDuckGo, Qwant;
• LibreWolf, IronFox, Mullvad Browser;
• more open source productivity programs, where work admins permit;
• avoid AI use or use locally-hosted or responsibly managed AI where it actually gives me a productivity benefit.

The more I DeGoogle, the more the wonderful rainbow land that should be the internet just starts to feel like a deep dark forest where everything is purposefully designed to exploit the user or wall them off. It’s tiring. User name checks out, I guess. Thanks for listening to my rant, please go on with your -hopefully- wonderful days now.